Elena Arjona-Gálvez

Elena Arjona-Gálvez

She/Her

PhD Student in Astrophysics

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elenarjonagalvez@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0462-7519

Summary

Current PhD Student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

Education

  • Ph.D in Astrophysics. FPI-SO grant
    (2021-2025)
    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
    Thesis: AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies: detailed analysis and comparison with ongoing and upcoming surveys. Supervised by Dr. Arianna Di Cintio & Dr. Robert J. J. Grand
  • M.S. in Astrophysics
    (2019-2021)
    Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
    Thesis: The formation of bulgeless galaxies in simulations. Supervised by Dr. Chris Brook & Dr. Claudio Dalla Vecchia. Grade: 9.1/10
  • B.S. in Physics
    (2013-2019)
    Universidad de Sevilla (US)
    Thesis: Study of the relation between the morphology of massive galaxies and their satellites using EAGLE simulations. Supervised by Dr. Claudio Dalla Vecchia. Grade: 9.5/10

Research Experience

  • Observational experience
    18 nights
    Telescopes: IAC80 (3 nights), Isaac Newton Telescope (INT, 15 nights)
    Instruments: CAMELOT2 (IAC80), Wide-Field Camera (WFC, INT)
  • Research visitor
    1 week (2025/06)
    Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), Durham, UK.
    Host: Dr. Francesca Frangkoudi
    One week stay along with Giulia Golini, working with Dr. Francesca Fragkoudi using the AURIGA Superstars simulations.
  • Research visitor
    5 weeks (2024/11-2024/12)
    University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside, CA, USA.
    Host: Dr. Laura Sales & Dr. Gabriela Canalizo
    Five weeks stay regarding my PhD thesis, working with relevant people studying AGN galactic outflows.
  • Research visitor
    2 months (2023/09-2023/11)
    Liverpool John Moore University (LJMU), Liverpool, UK.
    Host: Dr. Robert Grand & Dr. Andrea Foont
    Two months stay regarding my PhD thesis, working with relevant people in the galaxy formation area.
  • Research initiation
    2 months (2019/07-2019/09)
    Max-Planck.Institur für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany.
    Host: Dr. Ariel Sánchez
    Two months' stay funded by ERASMUS+ Traineeship program. Studying galaxy voids as cosmological laboratories.
  • Research initiation
    1 month (2018/12-2019/01)
    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
    Host: José Javier Díaz & Juan Villa
    Participation in the development of the LISA project as part of an external internship from the bachelor's.

Additional roles

  • PhD Student Representative (IAC&ULL)
  • Referee at OJ and A&A
  • Galaxy Coffee organiser committee (IAC)
  • Member of UNDARK
  • Former theory group weekly meeting organiser (IAC)
  • Member of BEARD
  • Member of the sustainability committee (IAC)
  • Member of ExGal-Twin

Skills

PROGRAMMING: Python (advanced), Astro-Softwares (advanced), Matlab( advanced), Fortran (medium), SQL (medium), C/C++ (fair), MPI (fair), IDL (basic), HTML (basic)
LANGUAGES: Spanish - native & English - advanced B2 (APTIS, 2019)

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